Scrum Master

NuAxis Innovations; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

NuAxis Innovations in Washington, DC seeks a Scrum Master to facilitate disciplined Agile delivery for a multi-disciplinary modernization team, owning facilitation, team flow, impediment removal, and sprint transparency alongside the Project Manager and Technical Lead.

The ideal candidate has 3+ years of Agile coaching, experience with sprint ceremonies, and strong Jira/Azure DevOps skills. This is a full-time on-site role at our federal IT-focused company.

Qualifications

• 3+ years facilitating Agile software-development teams and applying Agile principles in complex technical environments.
• Experience running sprint planning, daily standups, backlog refinement, reviews/demos, and retrospectives.
• Experience coaching cross-functional teams and managing dependencies across UI, services, database, QA, and deployment activities.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily standups, sprint reviews/demos, retrospectives, and other team working sessions.
• Coach the team on Agile principles, definition of ready/done, estimation, work-in-progress discipline, and sustainable delivery practices.
• Ensure stories have clear acceptance criteria, dependencies, testing expectations, and sufficient readiness before commitment.
• Remove or escalation impediments and coordinate resolution of cross-team dependencies that threaten sprint or release objectives.
• Protect the team from uncontrolled scope insertion while enabling transparent reprioritization through the agreed product/delivery process.
• Track sprint progress, predictability, carryover, blockers, defect trends, cycle time, and other agreed team metrics.
• Facilitate collaboration between developers, QA, Technical Lead, product owners/business stakeholders, Project Manager, and operations/security participants.
• Promote continuous improvement by turning retrospective actions and recurring impediments into owned, measurable improvements.
• Maintain accurate Agile tooling and ensure sprint status reflects the actual state of work.

Skills

Agile/Scrum facilitation

Jira

Azure DevOps

Coaching cross-functional teams

Education

Bachelor's degree preferred

Tools

Jira

Azure DevOps

Job description

Scrum Master

Location Washington, DC

# of openings 1

Salary Range (Min-Max) 0

WE ARE A FEDERAL IT COMPANY ON A MISSION TO MAKE CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE (CX) THE CENTER OF EVERY GOVERNMENT SOLUTION.

TECHNOLOGY IS OUR PASSION. PEOPLE ARE OUR PURPOSE.

We know tech, but we love people. NuAxis is home to thinkers and feelers; engineers and artists. We work hard and support each other along the way. Teamwork is more than just a buzzword for us, it’s a state of mind.

We believe happy employees do amazing work, we are currently seeking a talented and motivated Scrum Master for a Full-Time position.

Job Summary

We are seeking a Scrum Master to facilitate disciplined Agile delivery for a multi-disciplinary modernization team spanning front end, middleware, database, QA, security, and deployment. The Scrum Master owns process facilitation, team flow, impediment removal, and sprint-level transparency while partnering closely with the Project Manager and Technical Lead.

Education

Bachelor's degree preferred. Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), PMI-ACP, SAFe Scrum Master, or equivalent Agile certification required.

Required Experience & Qualifications

• 3+ years facilitating Agile software-development teams and applying Agile principles in complex technical environments.
• Demonstrated experience running sprint planning, daily standups, backlog refinement, reviews/demos, and retrospectives.
• Experience coaching cross-functional teams and managing dependencies across UI, services, database, QA, and deployment activities.
• Experience with Jira, Azure DevOps, or similar Agile work-management tools and sprint metrics.

Key Responsibilities

• Facilitate sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily standups, sprint reviews/demos, retrospectives, and other team working sessions.
• Coach the team on Agile principles, definition of ready/done, estimation, work-in-progress discipline, and sustainable delivery practices.
• Ensure stories have clear acceptance criteria, dependencies, testing expectations, and sufficient readiness before commitment.
• Remove or escalation impediments and coordinate resolution of cross-team dependencies that threaten sprint or release objectives.
• Protect the team from uncontrolled scope insertion while enabling transparent reprioritization through the agreed product/delivery process.
• Track sprint progress, predictability, carryover, blockers, defect trends, cycle time, and other agreed team metrics.
• Facilitate collaboration between developers, QA, Technical Lead, product owners/business stakeholders, Project Manager, and operations/security participants.
• Promote continuous improvement by turning retrospective actions and recurring impediments into owned, measurable improvements.
• Maintain accurate Agile tooling and ensure sprint status reflects the actual state of work.

Core Technical Skills

• Agile/Scrum facilitation, servant leadership, coaching, conflict resolution, and impediment management.
• Jira, Azure DevOps, or equivalent backlog/sprint tooling.
• Sprint metrics, flow/predictability analysis, dependency coordination, and continuous improvement.
• Ability to support teams transitioning from Waterfall or hybrid delivery models without compromising required governance.

OUR PROFILE:

We are an IT company with a unique mission—to make people the center of every federal IT solution. Our technologists have always gone the extra mile to help our federal clients succeed. And over the years, we saw a growing disconnect in how federal IT initiatives were built and managed.Time after time, programs failed because the focus was on the tools and products and not the people using them. LEARN MORE (https://nuaxis.com/about/#xd_co_f=MjAzODkxYzBmZmY2NGIwODY0YjE2OTk5MjQ4OTA2MTE=~) .

NuAxis is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment is contingent upon successful completion of a background investigation. LEARN MORE (https://nuaxis.com/careers/) about our Benefits and Culture!

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